Calculating a Typical Block Size
Depending on how you define your tables and the boundary conditions on their rows, the maximum size in bytes for a typical block can be estimated by the following equation:
where:
|
This variable … |
Specifies … |
|
ROUNDUP |
the ROUNDUP function. |
|
MAX x |
three quarters of the maximum block size in bytes. The upper limit on this value is 255 sectors, or 130,560 bytes. |
|
512 |
the rounded up sector boundary, which is the number of bytes per sector for the table. |
